
1 
This Order may be cited as the Land Registration (Proper Office) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 13th October 2003.
2 

(1) This Order applies to any application to the registrar except an application delivered to the registrar—
(a) in accordance with a written arrangement as to delivery made between the registrar and the applicant or between the registrar and the applicant’s conveyancer, or
(b) under the provisions of any relevant notice given under Schedule 2 to the Land Registration Rules 2003.
(2) In this article “conveyancer” means—
(a) a solicitor, or
(b) a licensed conveyancer within the meaning of section 11(2) of the Administration of Justice Act 1985, or
(c) a fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives.
3 
The proper office for the receipt of an application to which this Order applies is any office of the land registry specified in column 1 of the Schedule which is opposite an administrative area shown in column 2 of the Schedule in which the land to which that application relates is wholly or partly situated.
Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor
David Lammy
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department for Constitutional Affairs
2nd August 2003
SCHEDULE
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Column 1 Column 2
Office of the land registry Administrative Area
Land Registry, Birkenhead (Old Market) Office MerseysideStaffordshireStoke-on-Trent
Land Registry, Birkenhead (Rosebrae) Office CheshireHaltonHammersmith and FulhamKensington and ChelseaWarrington
Land Registry, Coventry Office West MidlandsWorcestershire
Land Registry, Croydon Office BexleyBromleyCroydonKingston upon ThamesMertonSutton
Land Registry, Durham (Boldon) Office CumbriaSurrey
Land Registry, Durham (Southfield) Office DarlingtonDurhamHartlepoolMiddlesbroughNorthumberlandRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesTyne and Wear
Land Registry, Gloucester Office Bracknell ForestBristolGloucestershireOxfordshireReadingSloughSouth GloucestershireWarwickshireWest BerkshireWindsor and MaidenheadWokingham
Land Registry, Harrow Office BrentCamdenCity of WestminsterThe City of LondonHarrowIslingtonThe Inner Temple and the Middle Temple
Land Registry, Kingston Upon Hull Office Kingston upon HullLincolnshireNorfolkNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireSuffolk
Land Registry, Lancashire Blackburn with DarwenBlackpoolLancashire
Land Registry, Leicester Office BuckinghamshireLeicesterLeicestershireMilton KeynesNorthamptonshireRutland
Land Registry, Lytham Office Greater Manchester
Land Registry, Nottingham (East) Office NottinghamNottinghamshireSouth Yorkshire
Land Registry, Nottingham (West) Office DerbyDerbyshireWest Yorkshire
Land Registry, Peterborough Office BedfordshireCambridgeshireEssexLutonPeterboroughSouthend-on-SeaThurrock
Land Registry, Plymouth Office Bath and North East SomersetCornwallDevonIsles of ScillyNorth SomersetPlymouthSomerset:
 Sedgemoor
 Taunton Deane
 West SomersetTorbay
Land Registry, Portsmouth Office Brighton and HoveEast SussexHampshire:
 East Hampshire
 HavantIsle of WightPortsmouthWest Sussex
Land Registry, Stevenage Office Barking and DagenhamHackneyHaveringHertfordshireNewhamRedbridgeTower HamletsWaltham Forest
Land Registry, Swansea OfficeCofrestrfa Tir Swyddfa Abertawe BarnetEalingEnfieldHarringeyHillingdonHounslow
Land Registry, Telford Office GreenwichHerefordshireLambethLewishamRichmond upon ThamesShropshireSouthwarkThe WrekinWandsworth
Land Registry, Tunbridge Wells Office KentMedway
Land Registry, Wales OfficeCofrestrfa Tir Swyddfa Cymru All counties and county boroughs in Wales
Land Registry, Weymouth Office BournemouthDorsetHampshire:
 Basingstoke & Deane
 Eastleigh
 Fareham
 Gosport
 Hart
 New Forest
 Rushmoor
 Test Valley
 WinchesterPooleSomerset:
 Mendip
 South SomersetSouthamptonSwindonWiltshire
Land Registry, York Office East Riding of YorkshireNorth YorkshireYork